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J> Industrial Hygiene Digest INDUSTRIAL HEALTH NEWS LITERATURE ABSTRACTS MEDICAL ENGINEERING CHEMICAL TOXICOLOGICAL LEGAL decisions and trends medicmoCt 2419^ ,\B OCTOBER, 1951 (VoLIB, No. 10) /" INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE FOUNDATION MELLON INSTITUTE 4400 FIFTH AVENUE PITTSBURGH 13. PA. ____ ffZ PLAINTIFF'S Industrial Hygiene Digest - 23 October, 1951 blood protein fractions, which behave differently in the presence of an exudative inflammatory process and in the presence of a proliferative cirrhotic inflammation. Fibrinogen and globulin and their fractions to a varying degree are increased at the expense of proteins in the presence of exudative inflammatory processes. The gamma globulin fraction is primarily increased in the presence of chronic inflammation with productive and cirrhotic processes. Weltmann's reaction, the Costa test, the cadmium sulfate reaction, Napier's aldehyde test were compared as indications of the deviations of the gamma globulin. Each proved effective in a large percentage of cases, but none gave unequivocal results. Eiebling's hydrochloric acid-collargol reaction was most useful in indicating severe hepatic impairment and cardiac decompensation. -- Cond. from Arch. Ihd. Hyg. & Occ. Med. 11^2 Electron Microscopy of Asbestos is Bodies and the Fibers of Asbestos. J. Champeix and J. Bouteville. ArchT Maladies Profess. 11, 607, (1950) (in French). Asbestos is bodies recovered from sputum have a central fiber of asbestos coated with a colloidal gel, which is probably protein. Bemoval of the enveloping gel by micromanipulation reveals some transparency of the edges of the asbestos fiber, believed to result from solution. Fibers shorter than 10 microns are not found in the bodies and it is suggested that the smaller fibers dissolve completely. On this evidence the authors suggest that pulmonary fibrosis may result from solution of asbestos rather than from some physical irritation. -- Brit. J. Ind. Med. 11^3 Studies on Aerosols. VT. Effect of Aluminum Powder and of Sodium Chloride Aerosols upon the Pulmonary Deposition of Silica Dust TLong Exposure J. L; Dautrbands W.C. Alford, D.A. Irvin, E.R. Mitchell, E.C. Thompson, F.L. Weaver and E.J. Wood. Arch. Internat. Pharmacodyn. et Ther, 80, 388-412, (1949). (in French). Prolonged inhalation of sodium chloride aerosols produces no harmful effects in rabbits and rats. The mixture of silica and aluminum aerosols with air containing a high concentration of quartz dust lessens the amount of dust deposited in the lungs. Histologic examinations of lung sections shows that the distribution of the aerosol-treated dust in the lung is less conductive to the development of silicosis than in the case of untreated dust. -- Biol. Absts. 1144 Air-Borne Dust Conditions in British Wartime Flax Scutching Factories. K.L. Goodall and~Y.J. Hardwick. Brit7J. Ind. Med. "S, 161-178, (July, 1951). The literature on flax dust hazards is reviewed, and data are given on the dust and health conditions existing in British flax scutching factories between 19^3 1945 Air-borne dust concentrations In the flax scutching rooms were high at the time, and dust surveys were made in order to ascertain the causes of these conditions and to remedy them. The overall average measured was 31. mg. per sq. m., with a range of 3 to 208 ng. The amount of mineral content varied from 15 to *4-0# with free .